US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 31 for "Point-in-time data copy in a distributed system" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,489, issued on March 31, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Point-in-time data copy in a distributed system" was invented by Walter Charles Dietrich Jr. (Armonk, N.Y.), Michael Patrick Shute (Stratford, Conn.), Marcelo Fernandes de Oliveira (Sorocaba, Brazil), Tiago Jose Adami (Centro, Brazil) and Norberto Gasparotto Filho (Agua Verde, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, computer program product, and computer system are provided. A controller component verifies the state of all file sets. The controller component initiates a sub-controller component, based on successfully verifying the s...